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zebeline

zebeline is the obsolete form of sabeline.

Meaning of sabeline

Noun

sabeline (countable and uncountable, plural sabelines)

  1. The skin of the sable.
  2. Ox hair dyed red to look like the higher-quality red sable, and sometimes blended with it; a substitute material for red sable in making brushes.

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Forms of zebeline

pluralzebelines

Questions about zebeline

What is zebeline the obsolete form of?
Zebeline is the obsolete form of sabeline.

Words near zebeline in the dictionary

  1. zebecque
  2. zebecques
  3. zebecs
  4. Zebedee
  5. Zebediah
  6. zebeline
  7. zebelines
  8. zebi-
  9. zebibits
  10. zebibyte
  11. zebibytes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zebeline (page history and authors); sabeline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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